dwarf elliptical
esiegel | November 4, 2013"Dream no small dreams, for they have no power to move the hearts of men." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Welcome back to yet another Messier Monday here on Starts With A Bang! Each Monday, we highlight one of the 110 deep-sky objects that make up the Messier catalogue, showing you where and how to find it in the sky and telling you a bit about the history and the physics/astrophysics behind it. Each one tells its own unique story, and today's distant wonder is no exception.
Image credit: Rich Richins, of all 110 Messier objects (in no particular order).
On a virtually moonless night like…